A new seven study paper in the Journal of Consumer Psychology by Aylin Cakanlar and colleagues shows that conservatives tend to see sustainable actions as less impactful than liberals, which lowers their likelihood to act; communicating peer prevalence or exact impact can close the gap.
Kyiv says it can send specialists and equipment to help Gulf partners defend against Iranian drones, but only with guarantees that Ukrainian defence is not harmed and that Kyiv secures diplomatic benefits.
More than 30 senators want a US investigation and a status report after a 19 year old American was shot in the West Bank, the ninth US citizen killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers since 2022.
Quick roundup of key aviation sustainability and industry moves: hybrid-airliner orders, SAF production starts, regulatory milestones and industry showcases at the Singapore Airshow.
A national analysis of 2000–2018 NHIS data finds that limitations in basic and instrumental daily activities rose overall among Americans aged 50–84, with the biggest relative increases among adults 50–64 and sharp post-2010 jumps among Hispanic subgroups, especially US-born Hispanic women.
The fast food chain is piloting AI-powered cameras that evaluate staff interactions for training, prompting concerns from workers, privacy groups, and experts about surveillance, bias, and data use.
The proposals would require platforms to verify users' ages, but reliable age checks require collecting identity-linked data, raising privacy, free-speech, and safety concerns for vulnerable people.
In an NBC interview from Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran is ready to face a possible U.S. ground invasion, rejected talks with the United States and said it had not sought a ceasefire amid ongoing strikes.
Chinese automaker BYD revealed a second‑generation Blade LFP battery and 1,500 kW Flash Chargers that, BYD says, can take compatible cars from 10 to 97 percent state of charge in about nine minutes while using on‑site energy storage to protect the grid.
BlackRock TCP Capital reported in Q4 filings that a junior loan to Infinite Commerce Holdings was written down to zero after being marked at full value three months earlier, marking a second abrupt loss in the firm’s private credit unit.
Researchers released Evo 2, an open source genome model trained on an 8.8 trillion-base dataset that recognizes regulatory DNA, splice sites, protein features, and predicts mutation effects across bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.
United updated its contract of carriage to allow removal or permanent bans for passengers who play audio or video without headphones, citing safety and the expansion of Starlink Wi Fi; free earbuds may be available on request.
A U.S. trade court judge told CBP to begin returning potentially billions to importers after the Supreme Court found last month that the Trump-era tariffs were collected illegally, and set a Friday hearing to review the agency's refund plans.
A University of Queensland-led team found that a lower ratio of polyunsaturated to monounsaturated fats makes T cells more resistant to oxidation-induced cell death, with possible effects on vaccine and cancer therapy outcomes.
A new AI model fuses top down satellite imagery with ground level Street View photos to give urban foresters a 3D view of trees and green spaces in Washington, D.C., revealing coverage gaps and guiding planning decisions with implications for smart city climate resilience.
An IMF working paper (2025/270) analyzing 170 countries finds global fossil fuel subsidies totaled about $7.4 trillion in 2024, driven mainly by underpriced air pollution and climate costs, and outlines the emissions, health, and fiscal impacts of subsidy removal.
Beijing aims for 4.5-5% growth in 2026 as weak domestic demand, a prolonged property crisis and falling investment weigh on the economy while leaders push tech self-reliance and keep fiscal support limited.
Large language models can produce fast, convincing imitations that create legal, quality and ethical risks because they lack provable sourcing; industry and consumers are already responding, and true solutions will require auditable provenance rather than opaque labels.
Gulf governments say interceptor stocks are running low and have urged the US to speed shipments, while drone attacks and staffing gaps at US diplomatic posts complicate regional defense and coordination.
Whitehall sources say Britain was warned by equipment movements and a US request to use bases but was not given precise operational details before US and Israeli strikes on Iran, which sources reported killed Iran’s supreme leader, the Guardian says.
Rivian is aiming for one of the fastest U.S. EV launches with the new R2, targeting June deliveries and 20,000 to 25,000 sales this year, but faces pricing uncertainty, lost tax credits, and skeptical analysts.
A federal judge told Customs to start processing refunds after the Supreme Court ruled the IEEPA tariffs illegal, opening the way for thousands of claims and mounting interest that now totals about $700 million a month.
A White House statement that Spain had agreed to cooperate with U.S. military operations was immediately rejected by Madrid, which says its stance on the Middle East and use of Spanish bases remains unchanged and subject to bilateral and U.N. rules.
A Mindfulness study used network analysis on college student data to show that higher self-compassion relates to greater empathy, which in turn associates with reduced support for social inequality, though causality and generalizability remain untested.
A U.S. submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena near Sri Lanka, killing scores of sailors and prompting a stern Iranian warning of reprisal as both sides step up military strikes that are disrupting shipping, energy markets, and regional security.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it struck a US-owned oil tanker in the north Persian Gulf and warned against foreign intervention, but independent verification is lacking and the situation remains unclear.
The Information Commissioner’s Office has contacted Meta after a Swedish investigation said outsourced annotators sometimes viewed sensitive footage from Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, raising questions about transparency and data protection.
At the annual Two Sessions meeting in Beijing, China lowered its 2026 GDP target to 4.5 to 5 percent and outlined fiscal, defence and social priorities as it tackles a property slump, weak demand and demographic pressures.
Millions of taxpayers are seeing stalled refunds and no updates on the IRS tracker as staffing cuts, complex new tax law rules, and state-specific backlogs slow processing across the country.
Reporting and think tank analysis place the early cost of US strikes in Iran at about $1 billion per day and more than $5 billion overall, sparking criticism over domestic tradeoffs and a failed congressional effort to limit the campaign.
Ukrainska Pravda reports that SSU and other Ukrainian forces struck the Russian frigate Admiral Essen in the Port of Novorossiysk on 1-2 March, damaging sensors and systems and leaving the ship unable to launch Kalibr missiles according to Security Service of Ukraine sources.
UCLA researchers report in Nature that the medial preoptic area and its projection to the brain reward system underlie both parental care and comforting of distressed adults in mice, providing neural evidence for an evolutionary link between parenting and prosocial behavior.
Washington has asked Kyiv for technical help intercepting Iranian Shahed drones after recent US and Israeli strikes on Iran, a request that highlights both Ukraine's battlefield experience and the awkwardness of cooperation amid strained US-Ukraine ties.
A resting-state MRI study led by Fangfang Huang found heightened visual cortex activity, altered connectivity with frontal and sensory regions, and a mediating role for reduced visual gray matter in young adults reporting subclinical social anxiety.
A Confluent survey of 200 UK business leaders found heavy AI reliance: most use AI for major choices, many second-guess themselves when AI disagrees, and executives cite faster decision timelines as a key driver.
A Notebookcheck teardown and user reports allege Chuwi shipped CoreBook X laptops with older Ryzen 5 5500U silicon while marketing them as Ryzen 5 7430U, with firmware masking the true processor identity.
The State Department dismissed Tehran’s report of 100 American deaths in Dubai, saying there is no corroborating evidence and that Dubai officials have not confirmed the figure.
The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III from Vandenberg on Tuesday night in a routine test that struck a target near the Marshall Islands, a move the US Space Force says was not officially linked to the unfolding Iran-Israel conflict.
A Cambridge meta-analysis finds people typically regain 60% of weight lost on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy within a year, with regain slowing and plateauing so about 25% of loss may be maintained, but the composition of regained weight and long-term outcomes remain unclear.
Six U.S. service members were killed in opening strikes as air and missile exchanges with Iran escalate, prompting civilian casualties, market volatility, and rising military costs.
Madrid opposes strikes on Iran and disputes claims of broad NATO backing, while stressing alliance commitment, denying U.S. use of Spanish bases, and sending warships to support Cyprus.
A 2019–2023 social media analysis finds both biannual clock changes lower public sentiment, with the shift back to Standard Time in the fall producing a stronger and longer lasting negative effect compared with the spring move to Daylight Saving Time.
A small but diverse crowd protested outside OpenAI on Tuesday, condemning the company’s Pentagon deal while spotlighting wider worries about environmental impact, creative labor, and economic inequality.
Researchers found that conspiracy beliefs are most likely to translate into justification of political violence when combined with high levels of routine political participation, based on two studies of 2020 Trump voters.
A comparison of annual losses shows minimum wage violations cost the U.S. $23.2 billion a year, far larger than common property crimes, and remote work is changing how wage violations occur.
Shipping stoppages in the Strait of Hormuz are disrupting fertiliser raw material flows and gas supplies, driving up prices and threatening crop yields and food costs worldwide.
Iran International says missiles and drones landed near Nakhchivan airport in Azerbaijan's exclave; authorities have not immediately confirmed the report or reported casualties.
White House financial disclosures show President Trump bought more Netflix debt in January while the Netflix bid for Warner Bros. played out, with filings saying investments are managed independently and the streaming company later backed away from the acquisition.
Speaking in Canberra, Mark Carney said closer Canada-Australia cooperation on minerals, defence, trade and AI will strengthen both nations against superpowers and announced Australia will join the G7 critical minerals alliance.
On March 4, 2026 Apple unveiled the $599 MacBook Neo, its lowest-cost new laptop yet, aimed at students and mainstream buyers and positioned against budget Windows laptops and Chromebooks.
ADP Research says US private-sector employers added 63,000 jobs in February, outpacing the Bloomberg median forecast and signaling some stabilization in the labor market.
At a Morgan Stanley event, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said OpenAI's potential IPO makes a $100 billion private investment unlikely and could close the window for major future deals.
On March 5, Beijing asked major refiners to suspend diesel and gasoline exports immediately after Persian Gulf conflict disrupted crude deliveries, officials told people familiar with the talks.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine will send military specialists to Gulf states to help counter Iranian Shahed drones and missiles, while coordinating with partners and ensuring Ukraine’s own defenses remain strong.
Notifications on the Gosuslugi portal are triggering travel bans and wider civil restrictions that can only be lifted by visiting a local enlistment office in person.
State and witness reports describe hospitals, a school and apartment blocks struck in some of the heaviest attacks on Tehran since the conflict began, with rescue teams and medical services overwhelmed and civilian casualties mounting.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a construction permit for a Bill Gates-backed TerraPower sodium-cooled reactor near Kemmerer, Wyoming, marking the first U.S. commercial reactor permit in eight years and the first non-light-water approval in over 40 years.
Beijing aims for 4.5 to 5 percent growth in 2026 as weak domestic demand, a prolonged property crisis and global uncertainty weigh on the economy ahead of a planned summit with US President Donald Trump.
Doctors Without Borders says 26 aid workers remain missing after two clinics in Jonglei State were attacked on Feb. 3, forcing staff and thousands of civilians to flee amid escalating fighting.
Crude has rebounded from the low 72 area toward 76 to 77 as traders price shipping congestion through the Strait of Hormuz, shifting the market focus from production to transportation risk.
A multinational study in six Latin American countries shows simple blood biomarkers can accurately detect Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and that adding cognitive tests and MRI substantially improves diagnostic accuracy.
Iraq's national power grid collapsed Wednesday, plunging all governorates into darkness as the US Embassy ordered American nationals to leave amid escalating strikes and retaliatory attacks in the region.
At a Morgan Stanley conference Jensen Huang said recent stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be Nvidia’s last because IPOs end the private investment window, but the company’s reduced commitments and rising political and strategic tensions suggest deeper reasons for the pullback.
A breakdown at a major power plant plunged large parts of Cuba into darkness as chronic fuel shortages and strained fuel shipments undermine the island's fragile electricity system.
Trump administration officials told a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing that Iran’s low-flying Shahed drones are difficult to intercept, raising concerns about air defense munitions and the scope and duration of US involvement as lawmakers debate authorization.
Google and independent researchers describe Coruna, a sophisticated iPhone exploit kit that used 23 vulnerabilities to install malware via websites, was used in both espionage and criminal campaigns, and may have originated with a surveillance contractor but its provenance is not proven.
Researchers say multiple Iran-associated threat actors used commercial VPNs and virtual servers to scan for known Hikvision and Dahua vulnerabilities, a pattern that may foreshadow physical attacks; patches and network hardening are recommended.
Anthropic is in a standoff with the Pentagon over limits on military uses of its AI, with threats of blacklisting or compulsion and OpenAI moving in with a separate Pentagon agreement.
Hardship withdrawals rose for the sixth straight year as 6% of Vanguard plan participants tapped retirement savings, even while average account balances hit a record near $168,000 and more workers boosted contributions.
Analysis of VA records found people on GLP-1 diabetes drugs had fewer substance-related ER visits, hospitalizations and deaths across multiple addictions compared with another diabetes medication.
Multiple well informed sources, Kurdish parties and Kurdistan Region officials told reporters that no Kurdish forces have crossed into Iran despite earlier unconfirmed claims and heightened regional tensions.
A federal judge ordered Customs and Border Protection to refund tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act after the Supreme Court invalidated those levies, opening the door to repayments for thousands of importers while replacement tariff policy remains uncertain.
A federal judge has ordered Customs to finalize or correct duty calculations for imports without the emergency tariffs the Supreme Court struck down, advancing but not completing the process for major tariff refunds.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says OpenAI misrepresented protections in its Department of Defense agreement after Anthropic declined similar terms over surveillance and weaponization concerns, sparking public backlash.
U.S. automakers have struggled to convert EV investments into profitable cars while Tesla and Chinese producers surge, exposing dealer incentives, charging failures, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv is working with partners on possible deployments of Ukrainian troops and experts in the Middle East to help protect civilians and restore safe navigation, while ensuring Ukraine’s own defence is not weakened.
Hundreds of Iranian Kurdish fighters have reportedly entered western Iran from the Iraqi border to pressure Tehran, amid reported US and Israeli contacts and official denials from the White House and Kurdistan authorities.
Sri Lanka’s navy recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 after the IRIS Dena was struck by a torpedo in international waters, a rare submarine sinking that U.S. officials said reflects broader military action against Iran.
A new report finds millions of workers at 20 large US companies earn wages low enough to push many onto public assistance while CEOs receive large pay and companies conduct big stock buybacks.
At a contentious briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump ordered strikes on Iran because he had a "feeling" Iran would attack, leaving reporters and lawmakers seeking clearer evidence and prompting bipartisan concern and congressional action.
A Cato Institute report says $175 billion collected under Trump’s IEEPA tariffs is sitting in the Treasury and accruing daily interest, and delays in issuing refunds could cost U.S. taxpayers about $700 million per month while CBP and courts sort out the process.
Accenture has agreed to buy Ookla-owned Speedtest and Downdetector from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion, saying the network data will be used to support clients scaling AI while the platforms continue to operate pending regulatory signoff.
Pottery residue analysis and replica cooking experiments, published in PLoS ONE (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0342740), show prehistoric European communities mixed freshwater fish with local plants such as berries, grasses and tubers in regionally distinct preparations.
The Federal Trade Commission said it will not bring enforcement actions under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule for certain age verification systems that collect personal data only to determine age if operators follow narrow use, deletion, and security conditions, a move that has drawn warnings from privacy and child welfare experts.
Tiny red sources in James Webb Space Telescope deep fields are forcing astronomers to rethink how the first massive objects formed, with new evidence pointing to either giant primordial stars or early direct-collapse black holes that could seed later galaxies.
Qazetchi says Azerbaijani forces were put on high alert and deployed to the Iran border, with leave cancelled and air defences activated, though the Defence Ministry has not confirmed the reports.
Public debt has climbed to record peacetime levels in several advanced economies, raising borrowing costs and forcing leaders to choose between tax rises, spending cuts, higher inflation, or more borrowing.
A software error caused Lunar Trailblazer to point its solar panels away from the Sun a day after launch, triggering power loss and cascading failures that led NASA to end the $72 million mission while salvaging lessons and at least one instrument for future flights.
Despite a marketwide oil rally after attacks that disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, Russia’s Urals grade traded about $30.9 a barrel below Dated Brent on March 3, the biggest discount since April 2023, driven by competition from other discounted crude and large tanker storage volumes.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered Ukrainian authorities to prepare support options, including on-site experts and military assistance, for Gulf states hit by Iranian drone and missile attacks while insisting help must not weaken Ukraine's own defenses.
A CPFIK official told i24NEWS that PJAK and allied Kurdish groups began ground movements into Iran on March 2 and that Iranian forces withdrew from Mariwan on March 3; outside media report US interest in arming Kurdish groups but the claims remain unverified.
At a Feb 18 FCC press conference Commissioner Brendan Carr said he sees TV broadcasters misreading equal-time precedents but has not seen the same problems on radio, a position that drew public criticism and questions about uneven enforcement.
The British Defence Ministry says a drone that targeted the RAF base at Akrotiri was not launched from Iran but has not identified its origin, and London has moved to boost air defenses and send armed helicopters to Cyprus.
Madrid and Washington issued conflicting statements after the White House said Spain agreed to help US military operations, while Spanish leaders rejected that claim and warned they will not allow use of shared bases for strikes outside UN rules.
European Council President Antonio Costa told Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez the EU stands with Madrid after US President Donald Trump threatened trade sanctions over Spain's refusal to allow US use of its bases for strikes on Iran.
Radiation, microgravity and isolation create medical harms that current countermeasures only partly address, leaving long-duration Mars or Moon habitation medically risky and uncertain.
Banking limits, sanctions, and patchy licensing across the Middle East and North Africa have pushed many viewers toward VPNs, Telegram channels, shared drives, and pirate IPTV, while streaming platforms try region-specific payment fixes but cannot fully close the access gap.
Researchers report the first in vitro production of fully functional, cycling hair follicles in mice by adding a previously missing accessory mesenchymal cell to a three-cell recipe, but human applications are still unproven.
A large analysis of routine mental health services found that most autistic adults had limited benefit from standard psychological therapies for depression and anxiety, with outcomes linked to daily functioning and ethnicity and early patterns often visible by session three.
Svenska Dagbladet says annotators in Kenya reviewed intimate videos and payment information recorded by Meta's Ray-Ban Display and similar AI glasses used in Europe, prompting GDPR and transparency questions.